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In reply to the discussion: Should we add a Dem-bashing clarification to the GD SoP? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)People who write like that don't last long as reporters. You don't open up your Boston Globe or even your edgy Mother Jones and see a surfeit of that kind of language. Yet, that author can't seem to get away from it. Seems like a downward circling cycle, to me.
It wouldn't matter if the reincarnation of Mary, Queen of Scots wrote that. It was a lousy thing to say, and it didn't advance any argument. It did focus attention on the writer--so if you're accusing me of paying untoward attention to the messenger, you might want to have a look at the thread that lit that stupidity off--ALL the attention went to the messenger... and maybe THAT was the goal?
If a writer can't write so that his message is "obfuscated," (to note your point) then maybe that writer ought to grab a clue--particularly when he expects to make a living at the keyboard. Tis a pity, indeed, especially when that's yer paycheck....
This has absolutely nothing to do with "free speech." One can make a clear and persuasive point without being, dare I say, a "piece of shit" about it. And if one chooses to be a "piece of shit" and express oneself in an "assholish" fashion, then one should be prepared for some free speech pushback from people who are sick to death of childish histrionics.